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Internationalism
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Should the United States be concerned with affairs among other countries or should it remain silent on the issues facing other nations? This question has challenged American leaders since the country's inception. Internationalism explores the argument over whether the United States should be more or less involved in the affairs of other countries.... more...
Refashioning Futures
Princeton University Press 1999; US$ 42.00How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform? David Scott argues that recent cultural theories aimed at "deconstructing" Western representations of the non-West have been successful to a point,... more...
The Art of Commemoration
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 165.00The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of transnational communication because it brought together... more...
Die Verwandlung der Welt
C.H. Beck 2010; US$ 21.56Hauptbeschreibung Mit dem 19. Jahrhundert beginnt die Vorgeschichte der Gegenwart. Es war das Zeitalter der großen politischen Ideologien und der Verwissenschaftlichung des Daseins, der Eisenbahn und der Industrie, der Massenemigration zwischen den Kontinenten und der ersten Welle wirtschaftlicher und kommunikativer Globalisierung, des... more...
The Day the War Ended
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 7.99One of Britain?s most acclaimed historians presents the experiences and ramifications of the last day of World War II in Europe May 8, 1945, 23:30 hours: With war still raging in the Pacific, peace comes at last to Europe as the German High Command in Berlin signs the final instrument of surrender. After five years and eight months, the war in... more...
After Tragedy and Triumph
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 27.00Michael Berenbaum explores the Jewish identity of his generation, the first to mature after tragedy and triumph. more...
The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the Third World
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 110.00Soviet policy towards the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America has undergone substantial expansion and change during the three decades since Khrushchev first initiated efforts to break out of the international isolation in which the USSR still found itself in the immediate post-Stalin years. Over the course of the past thrity years the Soviet... more...
Medialisierte Ereignisse
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 30.18Hauptbeschreibung Historische Ereignisse sind unlösbar mit den Medien ihrer jeweiligen Epoche verflochten. Medien prägen die Planung, den Ablauf, die öffentliche Deutung und die Erinnerung an Ereignisse. Die Beiträge untersuchen das Wechselverhältnis zwischen der körperlichen Performanz und der Medialität für die Zeit seit der Aufklärung. Das Spektrum... more...
Zwischen Trauma und Rechtfertigung
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung Viel wurde in den letzten 20 Jahren über die Schuld der Wehrmacht und ihrer Soldaten an den NS-Kriegsverbrechen geschrieben. Ute Mank hat neun von ihnen intensiv befragt und ihnen zugehört, ohne sie zu konfrontieren oder zu belehren. Aus diesem Erinnerungsmaterial hat sie die verborgenen und verleugneten Ebenen des Themas herausgefiltert:... more...









